IVPP V14530 is a nearly complete articulated skeleton with an approximately 18-centimetre skull used to diagnose an early ceratopsian character mosaic.
Represented range161.2–155.7 Ma
RegionsUpper Shishugou Formation, Xinjiang, China
CladesCeratopsia · Ornithischia
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topology · medium
Holotype IVPP V14530 preserves a nearly complete articulated skeleton and small skull from the Shishugou Formation; its basal ceratopsian and marginocephalian implications are character-matrix results, not a direct ancestor or global ceratopsian FAD.